In Yoast SEO, we’ve improved our innovative indexables technology. We’ve developed a faster and more reliable way of indexing your site’s data. In turn, we make better use of this data to improve your site’s SEO. Plus, this technology helps us do our best to make the web greener and lays the groundwork for exciting future possibilities.
An improved indexing system
You might be wondering, “What exactly are indexables?” Well, think of them as a way to help search engines find and understand the content on your website. An indexable is any resource a search engine can index via a URL.When a search engine “indexes” your website, it creates a map of all the pages it knows about. The indexables framework allows Yoast SEO to make a similar map of your site, interact with it and manage important SEO-related information.
But what makes indexables so special? Essentially, they allow Yoast SEO to better handle different types of content on your website beyond just traditional pages. This includes things like categories, archives, media files and far beyond that. This can greatly help larger sites with many different content types. Plus, it helps us build features on top of it!
And the best part? The indexables technology means better performance and more efficient use of resources. It’s a step towards making the web a little bit greener, as it reduces the amount of processing power needed to manage SEO metadata.
So, how does this work?
When you create a website, you like stuff to be easily accessible online. Indexables help Yoast SEO understand your website, so it can help search engines like Google understand your website better. Yoast SEO stores information about your website in a unique database table that we use to uncover and use your data — and speed up your database.To put indexables to work, you need to optimize your website’s SEO data. You can do this when you set up Yoast SEO or at a later date. When you optimize your SEO data, Yoast SEO will store information about your website’s pages in a unique table. This can take some time, especially for large websites, but you only need to do it once. After the initial optimization, Yoast SEO will automatically update the indexables table whenever you change something on your website.
Today, we’re launching improvements to this system for Yoast SEO and WooCommerce SEO.
Features
- Content insights
- No duplicate content
- Keyword optimization
- Focus keyword export
- Preview of your page
- Works in the block editor and classic editor
- Full control over your breadcrumbs
- Tell Google exactly what your page is about
- Readability check
- Technical stuff in the background
- Redirect manager
- No outdated content
- Internal linking suggestions
- Always updated for Google’s algorithm
Changelog
v.20.8 - May 23, 2023
- Improves feedback strings for the keyphrase density assessment by referring to the keyphrase in general instead of the focus keyphrase.
- Improves the accuracy of the content analysis by excluding texts within textarea tags from the analysis.
- Fixes a bug where an entry in the indexable table would be created when an archive of a non-public but publicly queryable post type would be visited.
- Fixes a bug where a warning about a missing key in a component would be thrown in the console in the Yoast SEO Settings page.
- Fixes a bug where entries in the indexable table would be created for archives of excluded post types.
- Renames "SEO Framework" to "The SEO Framework".
- Adds a column to the post overview page which shows whether a post has been marked as cornerstone content.
- Excludes the website home page from the Orphaned content workout in case the page is a static one.
- Fixes a bug where a console error would appear when opening a post on English sites.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.6.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.7.
- Deprecates the Zapier integration.
- Sets the minimum supported WooCommerce version to 7.1.
- Sets the minimum supported WordPress version to 6.1.
- Adds a text alignment assessment to the readability analysis in Block editor.
- Fixes a bug where a wrong redirect preview URL would be shown when WordPress was installed in a subdirectory.
- Adds a dismissible notification for the removal of the Zapier integration when the integration is enabled.
- Bumps the minimum required version of Yoast SEO to 20.6.
